On Tuesday, May 6, 2003, at 07:05 AM, Kevin S. Van Horn wrote:
Tyler Durden wrote:
Likewise with governments. I still need my trash taken out, and for potholes to be fixed.
What makes you think government is needed at all for these? My trash is taken out by a private company, not by any government. And privately built and maintained roads have existed for a very long > time.
We fix all of the potholes on our road. And more efficiently that "CalTrans" with its headquarter skyscrapers and $80,000/year pothole fillers do. (BTW, we pay exorbitant property taxes partly to pay for local roads, yet most mountain roads are private. Why don't we get a rebate on our taxes? Because money taken by the Gaping Mouth is never returned.) --Tim May "You don't expect governments to obey the law because of some higher moral development. You expect them to obey the law because they know that if they don't, those who aren't shot will be hanged." - -Michael Shirley